Former Severn and Wye Railway Tramway Bridge
FORMER SEVERN AND WYE RAILWAY TRAMWAY BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249702
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Severn and Wye Railway Tramway Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SEVERN AND WYE RAILWAY TRAMWAY BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249702
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Severn and Wye Railway Tramway Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SEVERN AND WYE RAILWAY TRAMWAY BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SEVERN AND WYE RAILWAY TRAMWAY BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lydney
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 63313 01997
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
LYDNEY STATION ROAD SO 60 SW 7/10001 Former Severn and Wye Railway Tramway Bridge - II Tramway bridge. Built c1810 for Lydney and Lydbrook Canal Company (later Severn and Wye Railway). Squared and coursed stone with ashlar parapet, set on a curved alignment with voussoirs to semi-circular arch. A complete and rare example of a structure associated with a horse-drawn tramway, preceding the introduction of steam-powered locomotion. The tramroad was built to improve the export of Forest of Dean coal, both up the Wye to Hereford and to the Thames Valley via the basin at Lydney and the Severn. (Hadfield C, The Canals of South Wales and The Border, Cardiff, 1967, pp 208-17)
Listing NGR: SO6331301997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431906
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, Canals of the British Isles in The Canals Of South Wales And The Border, (1967), 208-217
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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